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U.S. Solar Eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017
I've been waiting for this for a long time and it's just a little more than a year away now. This will be the opportunity of a lifetime for people in the U.S. The...

"probability of finding the electron"
I was trying to help (elsewhere) a student with some QM related problem and I realized something. When discussing QM we underline the fact that electron doesn't...

A new exomoon candidate: Kepler-1625b I
The authors looked for signals of potential moons in the Kepler transit data. There is some weak evidence that a group of smaller moons exists, but the measurements...

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S.
"Researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently improve the DNA of human embryos. The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the...